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[Alice Faber]

James A. Landau said:
>
>OT:  two neologisms found in the local newspaper this week:
>1) after the Eagles-Cowboys game, one member of the Eagle's secondary boasted
>"We covered our asses off"
>2) in an article about developers taking over old airfields, someone was
>quoted as complaining about the developers building "McMansions".
>Now "mcjobs" is
>plausible and reasonably obvious in meaning, but what the Mac is a
>"McMansion"?

This was discussed in a WotY meeting a few years ago. They're
"luxury" homes in a cookie-cutter type development.

As for "covered our asses off", I don't see what the neologism is.
"Cover" has been fairly normal football jargon for a fair number of
years. And adding "our asses off" seems like a perfectly normal
colloquial intensifier.

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